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1. Judicial officers and those of the public prosecution service, their assistants, subordinates, government attorneys, those of the electoral courts who are permanent and are in possession of their offices at the time of promulgation of this Constitution, are ratified and comprised in the non-removability referred to in the corresponding articles.

2. Alternate Municipal judges of the first class are incorporated in the ninth category of the judicial seniority list, and alternate municipal judges of the second class and first alternates of the third class, in the tenth category of said list; all with the same rights and prohibitions as the law specifies for the respective members of those categories.

. Present municipal mayors and those who are elected at the first elections held subsequent to the promulgation of this Constitution can impugn resolutions of municipal councils in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of Article 217 of this Constitution, before the competent Court of Appeals, by the procedure of an incidental civil action, until Congress enacts the corresponding legislation.

1. For the purpose of the provisions of Article 232 of this Constitution, mayors, councilmen or commissioners elected in 1944 shall cease in 1946.

2. The National Budget that becomes effective on January 1, 1942, shall specify the manner in which the expenses now covered in whole or in part by Municipal funds shall be transferred to the Nation.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 19 of the Law of July 15, 1925, and its Regulations, its provisions shall continue in force until they are repealed or modified by Congress; but they shall be. null and void as soon as full payment has been made of the principal and interest of the foreign debt; to the payment of which the taxes referred to in said Law of July 15, 1925, and its modifications are destined